Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University of California professor's report on genetically determined differences in intelligence. TELEVISION questions the networks' handling of their lively new "magazine" shows. BUSINESS examines the reasons for black frustrations in Detroit auto plants and deplores the violent response of mindless black militants. WORLD discusses the Soviet Union's foreign-policy problems and finds that the Russians have very little room for maneuver. PRESS turns the writer-critic relationship completely around with a critical appraisal of Clive Barnes, dance and drama critic of the New York Times...
...career soldiers, the experience seems more an example of military?and political?misjudgment than of calculated aggressiveness. The military, which oversold Lyndon Johnson on the efficiency of air power against North Viet Nam, can be faulted; so can the State Department, which insisted that Ho Chi Minh, despite his Soviet training and his country's history of resistance to Chinese influence, was little more than Peking's puppet. But the final decisions lay with the Chief Executive. When it came to the point of choosing between certain defeat of the South Vietnamese armies and the introduction of U.S. ground combat...
...system of defeated Germany, directed by General Reinhard Gehlen. An aristocratic non-Nazi who had directed Eastern-front espionage for Hitler, Gehlen knew early that Germany would lose. Sensing that the cold war would soon develop, he maintained his network of agents in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Grisly as the idea of using them may have seemed to the Allies at the time, Gehlen's teams proved invaluable; he assessed Soviet strategy and kept watch on the uneasily emerging political forces in Germany...
Abductions Inc. The Soviet Union and East Germany specialized in political kidnaping. Otto John, head of Germany's BFV-a counterespionage organization devoted to maintaining political order in West Germany-was either kidnaped or "defected" to East Germany in 1954. Walter Linse, head of Germany's League of Free Jurists (UFJ)-one of the "main instruments of Western propaganda policy, guiding and directing anti-Soviet forces in East Germany"-was abducted in front of a witness in 1952. By 1959, Hagen says, recording an astonishing statistic, "there had been 255 abductions and 340 attempted abductions in West Berlin...
Assassination also became part of the game. Russian exile groups in West Germany, particularly the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), worked actively to overthrow the Soviet government. To stop them, a Russian KGB spy named Bogdan Stashinsky was sent to murder Ukrainian Exile Leader Stepan Bandera and Lev Rebet, the editor of an anti-Soviet newspaper. Using a cyanide pistol, Stashinsky was successful in both cases. Hired killers are not among the world's most attractive people. Yet Stashinsky emerges as a tragic figure. A brilliant young scholar, he was blackmailed into murder by the KGB. Later, driven...